Discord Community Builder

Part-time role (15–20 hrs/week) with delayed compensation and ownership stake.

Location: Remote

About FiNC

We're upgrading how America chooses its leaders. Right now, three middlemen decide which candidates you ever hear about: big money, party gatekeepers, and media manipulation. They control the money, the access, and the visibility every candidate needs to win. Good candidates are everywhere: teachers, veterans, small business owners, community leaders who genuinely want to represent people. The system is just built to keep them invisible.

FiNC is cutting out the middleman. Think of us as a matchmaker for civic life: we connect citizens to the candidates who actually want to represent them, the movements working on what they care about, and the people building the same world they want. No gatekeeper deciding who you get to choose from. We don't pick sides. FiNC is the referee, not a player. Not left, not right, just representation.

The DP Hub (hub.futureis.org) is live now: candidate profiles, a Civic Tags system that lets candidates define themselves beyond party labels, citizen priority surveys, and growing Candidate Discovery. Movements and communities are our biggest growth engine right now, because they bring the citizens candidates want to reach.

What makes this work isn't just the technology. FiNC's core focus is the human side: outreach, PR, social media, and building citizen buy-in. We're not marketing a website. We're campaigning for a better way to choose leaders. Every candidate with a profile and every movement that plugs in benefits from that ongoing work. And the system is built so everyone lifts everyone. When a candidate shares their profile, citizens who click through discover other candidates. When a movement drives people to the DP Hub, those citizens find candidates aligned with their values. A different incentive structure than anywhere else in politics.

Our structure matters: FiNC is building something akin to a cooperative-style nonprofit where team members are partners and co-architects in a mission to rebuild how American democracy works.

Compensation Model

To maintain our independence and avoid conflicts of interest, we are not accepting investors or financing that comes with strings attached. Instead, we are Crowd-Starting FiNC—building it together from the ground up. We’re asking team members to contribute 15-20 hours per week during this phase, with compensation paid retroactively once we become fully operational. This model only works if you see it as a short-term investment for long-term rewards. Everyone who joins is a partner, receiving an ownership stake in FiNC. Our structure is similar to a Nonprofit Cooperative, moving beyond the traditional “employee vs employer” dynamic into something more collaborative and forward-thinking. This model filters for people who believe in the mission deeply enough to build alongside us. It's not for everyone, and that's okay.

Culture and Employment

• Neurodiversity and diversity-of-thought are strengths, not obstacles
• Servant leadership, dynamic team structures, and shared ownership
• Purpose over profits, value over hours, and respect for work-life balance
• We reward authenticity, passion, and commitment—not conformity
• We support individual weaknesses to enhance collective strengths
• Continuous role assessments, long-term growth opportunities, and real career sustainability

From your first 2-way interview, you will see (and feel) how radically different we are.

Responsibilities

• Start the conversations. This is the job, and everything else supports it. Daily prompts, questions, reactions to the news cycle, follow-ups on what someone said 3 days ago. You are the first voice in the room, and the one who makes sure a citizen's first post never sits there without a reply
• Build the culture in the Digital Politics Lens. Left and Right is where people stand on issues. Up and Down is how you judge leaders: does this one serve power, or serve you? Your job is to show citizens that second question by using it, not by teaching it. Over time, the room starts asking it without you
• Make new citizens feel like builders. Greet people by name. Point them to the DP Hub. Hand them 1 small thing to do. The first active citizens are Founding Members, and they set the tone for everyone who comes after them
• Go where citizens already are. While our server is still quiet, part of your week is spent in other Discord communities: political, civic, local, issue-based. Contribute something real, be a person, and let people find their own way back to us. Slow and organic. No link-dumping, no copy-paste pitches, no ignoring another server's rules
• Keep the space safe and organized. Set norms, hold them, and handle the rare bad actor fast. The server is already structured, so this is upkeep, not a rebuild
• Run the backend. Bots, roles, permissions, and the onboarding flow. Improve what is there when it gets in the way
• Report what you hear. You will know what citizens actually care about before anyone else in the org. That goes back to Outreach, Marketing, and the podcast

What This Role Is Not

• This is not a moderation job under a new name. The distinction matters, because the skills that make someone great here are not the same ones that keep the peace in a room that is already full
• Not a moderation queue. Removing spam is a small slice of the work. If enforcing rules is the part that appeals to you, this is not your role
• Not a debate club. We do not win arguments in our own house. We change the question being asked
• Not advocacy. FiNC is the referee. We name what is rigged, and we host every position on how to fix it. We never tell citizens what to believe or who to vote for. If you want a space to push your own politics, this will frustrate you
• Not a 24/7 job. Consistency beats presence. Showing up every day for a focused stretch does more than camping in the server all weekend and then disappearing
• Not solo. Other team members will help with coverage and content, and Outreach will feed you people. But you own the space, which means if it goes quiet, it is yours to fix

Skills

• You start conversations easily. In a group chat, you are the one who says the first thing
• Discord fluency. Roles, permissions, bots, threads, events, onboarding. You do not need to be a developer, but you should not need a tutorial
• Politically literate, not partisan. You follow what is happening, you can talk about it with anyone, and you do not need people to agree with you
• Calm under heat. Political spaces get tense. You de-escalate with empathy and bring it back to the point
• Mission fit. You want citizens to have a real say in who represents them, on infrastructure citizens own
• Bonus. You have taken an early-stage Discord from quiet to active, moderated a political or civic community, or built culture anywhere online from scratch